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Jean Virieux, Fellow of Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and Emeritus professor at the Univ. Grenoble Alpes and former junior and senior member at the Institut Universitaire de France, is a seismologist working at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre).
He has received a PhD degree on "Earthquakes: rupture and waves" in 1986 at the University Denis Diderot-Paris.

His research is oriented to seismic wave propagation modeling through field experiments and theoretical modeling in heterogeneous media. Travel-time tomographies based on ray theory or full waveform inversion based on volumetric numerical methods solving elastodynamic equations allow high-resolution imaging of crustal structures (Mt Vesuve/Italy; Corinth Gulf/Greece; Vallhall/Norway).

Multi-parametric reconstruction from 3D important databases is the current challenge of the different engineers and researchers of the consortium SEISCOPE supported by many industrial entreprises. With Stéphane Operto, he has launched this consortium in 2005. Nowadays this consortium has Romain Brossier and Ludovic Métivier as principal investigators.

Seismic dynamic rupture imaging related to earthquakes has also attracted his attention since his thesis with dedicated PhD projects supported by European funds.


2015-PRESENT

– Year 2023 184 Yong, P., R. Brossier, L. Métivier, and J. Virieux, Localized adaptive waveform inversion: theory and numerical verification, Geophysical Journal International 233(2), 1055-1080, (...)

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2008-2014

– Year 2014 125 Métivier, L., F. Bretaudeau, R. Brossier, S. Operto and J. Virieux, Full waveform inversion and the truncated newton method : quantitative imaging of complex subsurface structures. (...)

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1997-2007

– Year 1997 34. Amand, P. & J. Virieux, 1997. Nonlinear Inversion of Seismic Reflection data by Simulated Annealing, Springer-Verlag, Inverse problems of wave propagation and Diffraction, 486, (...)

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Before 1997

– Year 1982 1. Virieux, J. et R. Madariaga, 1982, Dynamic faulting studied by a finite difference method, Bull. Seismo. Soc. Am., 72, 345-369. pdf 2. Jackson, J.A., J. Gagnepain, G. Houseman, (...)

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Selection of five publications

My scientific carrier has been motivated by understanding and imaging both seismic sources and Earth structures. With a starting impulsion of Pr. R. Madariaga, I have been able to work on the (...)

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